The National Forum of the United Left Alliance will offer an opportunity to put the launch of the Alliance into perspective and to discuss its further development. All over Europe, there is a huge vacuum in political life, more particularly on the Left. That vacuum has been left by the inexorable move to the right [...]
Leader’s Questions: The rise in the pension age
On June - 16 - 2011
Beginning in January 2014, approximately 11,000 workers will reach 65 years of age and should be going on to the State contributory pension. Today, the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, intends to ram a Bill through the Dáil which will mean these workers will not get a cent at 65 but will have [...]
What Planet is Minister Quinn living on?
On June - 9 - 2011
On Tuesday in Leaders’s Questions I raised ths issue of a statement from Minister for Education and Skills, Ruari Quinn, who sought to blame parents for the underfunding of schools. Here is the video, and text of the question and response: “Is the Taoiseach satisfied that with his Government only three months in office, Ministers [...]
Joe Higgins Condemns Social Welfare & Pensions Bill
On June - 9 - 2011
In a speech in the Dail yesterday Joe Higgins condemned the new Social Welfare and Pensions Bill which was being rammed through the parliament. “This Social Welfare and Pensions Bill contains one of the most reactionary measures that will ever come before Dáil Éireann and the Government proposes to ram through after a very curtailed [...]
